Fedora 18 laptop regression

[alex399 at hushmail.com]

On 05/01/2013 at 10:39 PM, "Lennart Poettering" <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
>Normally your DE will take a lock that disables handling of the lid
>switch as long as the DE is up.
>
>If your DE doesn't handle the lid switch then logind can handle it 
>for
>you and it will by default. If your DE handles the lid switch but
>doesn't take the lock, then it's a good idea to fix the DE. A 
>workaround
>is to invoke it via "systemd-inhibit --what=handle-lid-switch".
>
>Lennart

so this is a problem with GNOME. I should've guessed.

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There is almost nothing you can configure with GUI in GNOME and gsettings isn't even adequate anymore.
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